Purgatory Road Ray Wylie Hubbard

[Verse 1]
Mama come in from the kitchen
She tells me to fetch my brother
She wipes her hand on her apron
And says, "Don't be late for supper"

[Verse 2]
I walk out on the front porch
The sun's about to die
It's still so hot the old dogs wouldn't bark
Even if a car's to drive by

[Verse 3]
There's a blue-green Buick and a flat-black Ford jacked up off the ground
Daddy's sittin' on a stump and he's lookin' bewildered at the parts lyin' all around
We ain't been no where at all since the Fairlane threw a rod
Whatever it is, is bein' damned to hell by my daddy and God

[Chorus]
Some are here workin' on a passage to Heaven
And others, they can't carry that load
A few are left singin' the blues on Purgatory Road

[Verse 4]
It's just a mile or so to the edge of town
There ain't much of one here now since the factories closed down
You got no jobs, you got no people, and you got no businesses
The only thing left is the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses